VC Daily Music Schedule
8:10-9:00am~ 2nd Grade
9:00-9:50am~ Conference
9:50-10:40am~ 1st Grade
10:45-11:35am~ Kinder
12:10-1:00 pm~ 4th Grade
1:05-1:55 pm~ 3rd Grade
2:00-2:50 pm~ 5th Grade
Cougar Choir- Tuesdays from 3:00-3:45pm
Honor Choir- Thursdays from 3:00-4:00pm
Why Mrs. Saldaña Teaches Music
I. Music is a Science. It is exact, specific, and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time.
II. Music is Mathematical. It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
III. Music is a Foreign Language. Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is certainly not English - but a highly developed kind of shorthand that used symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language.
IV. Music is History. Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even the country and/or racial feeling.
V. Music is Physical Education. It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
VI. Music Develops Insight and Demands Research.
VII. Music is all these things, but most of all, Music is Art.
It allows a human being to take all these, dry technically boring, (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate; humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
That is why I teach music:
Not because I expect you to major in music.
Not because I expect you to play or sing all your life...
But so you will be human.
So you will recognize beauty.
So you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world.
So you will have something to cling to.
So you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good - in short, more Life.
VC Music Events
Cougar Choir starts on September 20th
Honor Choir starts on September 22nd
Grade Level Activities:
3rd Grade DSO Trip- October- Date TBA
October 27th- 5th Grade Music Program 6pm
November 11th- Veterans Day Ceremony 8:15am (Choirs Perform)
November 15th- 3rd Grade Specials Night 6pm
December 1st- 2nd Grade Music Program 6pm
December 10th- Parade of Lights for Choir
December 13th- Winter Performance for Cougar/Honor Choirs 6pm
January 26th- 3rd-5th Grade Talent Show 6pm
February- Honor Choir Performs at Texas Legend's Game Date TBA
March 30th- 1st Grade Music Program 6pm
April 13th- 4th Grade Recorder Performance 6pm
May 12th- Amazing Jake's Celebration for choirs
May 16th- Spring Performance for Cougar/Honor Choirs 6pm
May 18th- NRH20 Contest for choirs
May 30th- Kinder Music Program 8:15am
May 31st- 5th Grade Promotion 8:15am
Talent Show:
3rd-5th Grade
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December 5th- Registration packets available
December 16th- Packets due. No late entries accepted
January 3rd- Audition times posted and e-mailed
January 9th- Talent Show Auditions 3:00-6:00pm
January 13th- Results sent home
January 23rd- Backstage Crew practicies until 4pm
January 24th- Decorate from 3:00-5:00pm
January 25th- Dress Rehearsal from 3:00-6:00pm
January 26th- Talent Show 6pm
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